About a month ago I watched the movie Julie & Julia in which Julie Powell writes a blog about cooking. Watching the movie made me think, what would I write about if I wanted to share my most interesting experiences and learnings to a potential internet community? I am definitely an inquisitive person with a lot of strong opinions about many things, whether it be related to pop culture, politics, business, etc. Let's just say I love to wrap my head around things that I find confusing, interesting, and complex. The one topic that always keeps me on my toes and surprises me is relationships. In particular, long distance relationships.
Currently I am in a relationship with a wonderful guy who seems like a dream come true. The only part of it that makes me nervous is the distance. I have never been a fan of long distance relationships and never thought I would be in one out of college, but close to graduation, I realized how stupid it would be to let someone this amazing go. So here I am, looking for clarity in this messy and murky situation full of love, tears, laughter, and most important of all, hope.
When we first started long distance and I found myself struggling to handle everything that it entails, I scoured the internet for sources of inspiration and bits of advice. Faceless magazine editorials and a few how-to-ish columns were all I could find. What I really needed was a girlfriend who was going through the same thing. Someone who I knew, someone I could relate to, and someone whose advice I could trust because it really worked for them. So I guess that is the first purpose of starting this blog: to give someone who may be looking a peek into my own long distance challenges & solutions in hopes that it may help him or her with their own wonderfully complicated relationship.
But honestly folks, even if nobody set their eyes on this blog, I would be happy to have a record of how I got through it all with my Mr. Right. This will be my journey, from the disconcerting beginning to the fulfilling end. And my hopes are, it will be the happiest ending that even I could not have imagined.
